To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fredrik_Markstr=F6m?= 
	<fredrik.markstrom@avalonenterprise.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Developing non-commercial drivers ?
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:16:44 +0100."
             <fc262dee0811180816k29cc93aas51c2c47ede2c7a1@mail.gmail.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:16:44 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fredrik_Markstr=F6m?= said:
> I'm working for as a consultant for a large hardware company porting
> Linux to their new cpu-architecture and everything is pretty much
> up and running. Now they want us to develop a closed-source (to
> protect their IP) ethernet driver for their proprietary Ethernet MAC.

Am  I the only one that's boggled by the concept of a company that can develop
an entire CPU architecture and be OK on the GPL licensing of all the code
in arch/new-foo-cpu that exposes the IP of the cpu design, but they're worried
about the special sauce in a freakin' *ethernet controller*?

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